Wireshark · Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Copying text out of Ethereal windows

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jose Tamayo said:
> I might actually be able to do it but I need more specs on the language
> that you use to develop Ethereal.

The language is C.  It shouldn't be too hard to find documentation on it. :-)

See also the GTK+ and GLib documentation at

    http://www.gtk.org/

and the various README files in the "doc" directory in the Ethereal source.

> I thought there might be a master list that is kept on the desired
> enhancements.

The closest thing to that is

    http://www.ethereal.com/development.html#wishlist

which includes

    10. Selecting Edit/Copy should copy packet data into the copy buffer.

but there's no guarantee that anything in that list will appear in any
particular future release.

> How do you control releases?

When one of the developers thinks we might have enough additional
functionality to justify doing another release, or that we have a bug fix
that should get into a new release, they tend to send a message to
ethereal-dev suggesting that.  Typically a new release will come out
within a week or two of that if people seem to think it's time; usually
they come out between once a month and once every two months.